Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

News about Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 25, 2013

Textile and carpet designer Madeline Weinrib has been asked to transform Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Upper East Side thrift shop into occasional pop-up boutique for designer sample sales; first sale, offering rugs, clothing and fabric. MORE

Nov. 13, 2012

Editorial applauds doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York for standing up to drugmaker Sanofi, which has lead to company reducing price on colorectal cancer drug Zaltrap; contends that it is heartening sign that physicians can play major role in helping to reduce escalating costs of health care for treatments of marginal value. MORE

Nov. 9, 2012

Drug maker Sanofi announces that it will effectively cut in half the price of its new colon cancer drug Zaltrap after Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York announced that it would not use the drug due to expense. MORE

Oct. 15, 2012

Op-Ed article by Peter B Bach, Leonard B Saltz and Robert E Wittes, doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, explains the hospital's decision not to use new cancer drug Zaltrap, which has proved to be no more effective but is more than twice as expensive; contends that this is one example of how the medical community needs to consider financial costs of treatments for patients alongside their benefits. MORE

Feb. 23, 2012

University of Pennsylvania joins a lawsuit against Dr Craig B Thompson, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, claiming he improperly used research done at the university to start a pharmaceutical company. MORE

Feb. 6, 2012

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president Dr Craig B Thompson is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace, a cancer institute at the University of Pennsylvania, over accusations that he walked away with research; dispute reflects the importance that academic research centers now place on turning discoveries made on their campuses into sources of revenue. MORE